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Two logical fallacies that we must avoid | Psychology Today Blogs
It is not possible to make either the naturalistic or the moralistic fallacy if scientists never talk about ought. Scientists – real scientists – do not draw moral conclusions and implications from the empirical observations they make, and they are not guided in their observations by moral and political principles. Real scientists only care about what is, and do not at all care about what ought to be.
Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Late Bloomers - Why do we equate genius with precocity?
by Malcolm Gladwell
I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com
If you don’t dive in, other people will define who you are. So you constantly stream your pictures, your thoughts, your relationship status and what you’re doing — right now! — if only to ensure the virtual version of you is accurate, or at least the one you want to present to the world.
Cities and Ambition
Hipness is another thing you wouldn't have seen on the list 100 years ago. Or wouldn't you? What it means is to know what's what. So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that consisted of being "au fait." That could explain why hipness seems particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand.
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Hipness is another thing you wouldn't have seen on the list 100
years ago. Or wouldn't you? What it means is to know what's what.
So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that
consisted of being "au fait." That could explain why hipness seems
particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional
English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand.
Charlie Brooker on the benefits of a good slagging off | Comment is free | The Guardian
There's a surplus of arrogant titheads around because we don't, as individuals, receive anything like enough negative feedback these days. Instead we're all led to believe we're somehow unique and important, that we have a destiny, that we matter in some way. But this doesn't add up. There are billions of us. An infinite swarm of haircuts and anuses, that's humankind for you. We can't all be "special". The vast majority of us are meaningless energy blips, and we'd do well to remember the fact.
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And there's a surplus of arrogant titheads around because we don't, as individuals, receive anything like enough negative feedback these days. Instead we're all led to believe we're somehow unique and important, that we have a destiny, that we matter in some way. But this doesn't add up. There are billions of us. An infinite swarm of haircuts and anuses, that's humankind for you. We can't all be "special". The vast majority of us are meaningless energy blips, and we'd do well to remember the fact. Maybe if we saw ourselves as merely part of the herd (which is, after all, what we are), we'd be more inclined to work together to solve the planet's problems.
Life Goes On In Tehran - March 1, 2008
Great snapshot of an Iranian-American's experience of travelling in Europe.
Charlie Brooker: The Dead Parrot Defence used to be just farcical. Now that killers are using it things are getting serious | Comment is free | The Guardian
Until recently, Dead Parrot Defences have been the farcical preserve of adulterers hiding in cupboards and schoolkids whose dog ate their homework. But now things are getting serious. Recently, a spate of ridiculous alibis put forward by desperate murdere
Puppy-toss video makes Marine figure of hate - Times Online
Good. I saw the video. Very quickly wished I hadn't. His name is David Motari - just another anonymous psychopath, but not anymore.
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
Well, what can't be copied?
J.K. Rowling - TIME
Rowling's religious agenda is very clear: she does not have one. "I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. I wasn't trying to do what C.S. Lewis did. It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's
Kate and Gerry McCann: Beyond the smears - Times Online
A very modern tale of police incompetence and journalism that fails to rise above malicious gossip - all aided and abetted by a general public incapable of critical-thinking.
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